Teaching · Special Education

Know which testing skills you can do alone.

Rate what you have actually done, by yourself or with a colleague watching. The summary names the gaps that matter most for a first solo test and keeps the plan to close them.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 100 items.

The skills check

One record per person and date. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Skills by level, the gaps before a first solo test, and a dated practice plan.
Who it is for
Teachers, technology staff, assistive technology specialists and accessibility leads learning to test digital materials.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved record per person and date; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
test it the way people use it
Drawn for this page. Most of a first accessibility test is a keyboard and a screen reader, used the way the people who rely on them use them.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with your initials or a staff code.
  2. Rate each skill by what you have done, not read about.
  3. If a colleague watched, note their role.
  4. Add one or two skills to practise, each with a date.
  5. Rate again after the practice and copy the record to the new date.

Rate the skills

How the checklist is built

The six for a first test

Focus order, keyboard traps, starting a screen reader, form labels, contrast and writing a clear issue carry most first tests of a page or form. The checklist pulls those out so they get practised first.

Automated checkers

Automated tools are fast and useful but catch only part of WCAG failures; they cannot judge focus order, whether alt text makes sense or whether captions are accurate. A tester needs both.

What it is not

A learning record for the person who keeps it. It is not a certification and should not be used to rate job performance.

Sources

  1. W3C. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, 2023, and Understanding WCAG 2.2.
  2. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. Easy Checks: A First Review of Web Accessibility, and Evaluating Web Accessibility Overview.
  3. U.S. General Services Administration, Section508.gov. ICT Testing Baseline for Web Accessibility and the Trusted Tester process.
  4. WebAIM. Using NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility; Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility.

The example rating is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.